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For: The opinion Updated 06 Jan 2023, 15:37 pm EST
A new black Thursday was lived in Sinaloa, after more than three years of the so-called “Culiacanazo”. The protagonist himself was arrested, this time neither the blockades nor the shootings managed to Ovid Guzman was released. The operation to recapture him included transferring him to Mexico City, from there to the Altiplano Prison, located in the municipality of Almoloya de Juárez, in the State of Mexico.
First, “The mouse” He arrived at the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (FEMDO), from there he was transferred to the maximum security prison, but he did not make the same journey as other drug lords, because due to his profile, he was not taken by land, but by helicopteralthough a decoy convoy did come out to mislead.
Around 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 5, the son of one of the most famous drug traffickers, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmanarrived at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 1, known as the highlandswhere he will remain until his due process lasts and his extradition to the United States is decided.
Ovidio Guzmán’s new home is not only a maximum security prison, it is also it is a place full of history and famous prisoners.
The prison has an area of 260,000 square meters and a capacity for 764 inmates. It was inaugurated in November 1991, in 31 years of service it has been the site of one of the most controversial chapters in the history of Mexico, the escape of “El Chapo”, who made a sophisticated tunnel through which he escaped aboard a motorcycle. .
Famous prisoners of the Altiplano
Although the name of Joaquín Guzmán Loera is one of the most famous in that prison, not only because of its importance, but also because of his escape, the most important cartels in Mexico converge in that place, since some of their hitmen or leaders occupy cells in the Altiplano.
The Guzmán family occupied places in Almoloya, “El Chapo” was the most famous, but Ovidio’s brothers and uncles also served sentences there. Currently there are renowned characters in the criminal world, the most “important” is Rafael Caro Quintero, “The Narco of Narcos””, who was the leader of the extinct Guadalajara Cartel.
The leader of another cartel, that of Santa Rosa de Lima, is also being held there. Is about José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro”. Another famous prisoner is Daniel Arizmendi Lopezkidnapper known as “El Mochaorejas”, whose criminal career ended on August 17, 1998.
The brothers will also share confinement with Ovidio Miguel Ángel and Óscar Omar Treviño Morales, the “Z-40” and the “Z-42”, respectively, both former leaders of Los Zetas. Another inmate in El Altiplano is Servando Gomez, aka “La Tuta”former leader of The Knights Templar.
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